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I was boggling that I hadn't done one of these since June then looked at my post titles for the last few months and remembered how sick I was for a while there. But I managed to draw some stuff anyway through the fog :) Also I got a copy of Manga Studio 5, which does some lovely lines and painting...that make my computer cry :(

All art has transcripts/descriptions at the link.

Prettiest:

Snow White and Red Riding Hood

Most interesting:
News From The Sea: A little fantasy comic adapted from this short story I wrote. Created for a Comic Books and Graphic Novels course. Transcripts in chapter 2.

As far as I can tell I got...120% for this comic? And that's getting less than half of the available extra credit. lol coursera. But it was fun!

( Person of Interest, Avatar: The Legend of Korra/The Last Airbender, Guild Wars 2, Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Red Dwarf, Bastion, Dr Who, Original, Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, Fresh Pretty Cure )

I decided in would be fun to do this 30 challenge to draw monster girls. I got a whole seven days in before running out of steam, I mean to get back to it when I feel inspired again but for now here's what I've drawn.

I also wrote some meta on the subject and got some interesting and inspiring replies I should respond to.

There's some mild nudity and gore in some of these, nothing extreme. Also a spider and a snake, but they're friendly :)


Centaur on deviantART Centaur at tumblr

( Image descriptions at either link )

(For my EX Mode remixer, and anyone else who's interested)

sqbr has all my fanfic and some of my art. Here's my Dragon Age fic and here's my Mass Effect fic. Some of these are parts of series with art and comics and other fic, but you can ignore that if you want!

All my art is at DeviantArt. The relevant fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and miscellaneous fandoms including Portal, Final Fantasy 12, Final Fantasy 13, and Magical Diary.

Have fun :)

First, two sensible links: A set of posts about a chronic pain class, a lot of this matched stuff I've learned from chronic illness myself, though some didn't.

A nice perspective tutorial from astridv.

And now unabashed fannishess.

If there were Barryaran political RPF fanvids, they would look like this: Russian vids to a Vorkosigan fan rock opera.

All the Ladystuck works are out, and many of them are fantastic. Again, no real points for guessing which ones are mine, though one is slightly harder than usual. Here's the Ladystuck works I've bookmarked. There are MULTIPLE femslash fancomics, and THREE Rose/Terezi fics. This makes me happy.

And just as my dance card was looking empty…dragonagewomen, a female-character centric challenge for my other main fandom. Plus newgameplus is probably going to be running a computer game fandom remix challenge including art, which should be super fun.

I started watching the anime Gintama and it is VERY SILLY. It's about a Japan colonised by aliens in the Edo era, and seems to basically be samurai + pop culture references + scifi + random shenanigans. Also the main character Gin looks like a white haired version of Shin from the anime of Gokusen, it's disconcerting.

I also started watching Capital Scandal, A Korean live action comedy/romance tv show set in Japanese occupied 1930s Korea. It seems to be a mix of fun 30s shenanigans with fighting-against-the-evil-occupier war drama, I'm quite enjoying it so far but it's an interesting contrast to Gintama!

Three of these are for junetide, an original art/writing exchange I did recently. All pictures have descriptions. (I should post about the awesome gift I got, too. Maybe later!)

This was my main piece, a gift for badgerbag, who gave the prompt "Dragons don’t need to breathe. Somehow, humans are able to use them for space travel". I spent a while trying to come up with a backstory and lifecycle and consistent physics before deciding to just have fun with the idea.


Dragons! In! Space! on DA, Dragons! In! Space! on Tumblr

( Three more pictures. One mildly nsfw )

An information post for my junetide creator.
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My white Lotus fic, huzzah! Beloved Ice, a cute little Zuko/Mai/Katara fic. Zuko/Mai and femslash, yay! Plus general happy friendshippiness ^_^

Around Us, a really good general Avatar fanvid and just the burst of happy I needed.

Why you should all watch Press Gang. I remember season 3 being really annoying so stopped my rewatch in Season 2, but maybe I should give it a shot.

Via Tumblr I came across Fat People Art Week and I'm going to try to draw something for it (possibly getting around to it sometime this month, knowing me :D) since I really don't draw many fat people which is particularly silly since I could just look in a mirror or draw Cam. (And I may well do both of those things!)

But! It's hard to think of what to draw. So, who are your favourite overweight(*) characters?

My attempts to draw the Vorkosigan brothers have all failed miserably, but I do like Mark from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series.
While she's only Hollywood fat I am pondering using this as an excuse to draw Sarah Rue, who was Penny in Eastwick and the doctor girlfriend in Big Bang Theory.
Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender is pretty cool though he stops being fat once he decides to be really truly badass, plus I already drew him a bunch.

That's who comes to mind after a very brief think but there are of course lots of others. *ponders*

(*)Which is of course an incredibly subjective term. I like the "not thin" definition on the fat art blog, I guess.

This is currently a placeholder for a remixduello remixer letter.

I've never done a remix before, and am currently on holiday, hopefully I will think of something helpful to say in the next couple of days. (I'm not sure what one says in this sort of thing, it's not like it's a gift so my tastes seem irrelevant) Anyway, I hope you find the story inspiring and whatever you feel like writing am very curious to see what someone else will do with the material! If you feel like remixing the art somehow I am cool with that though I realise the odds of you also being a fanartist are fairly low.

Here is a timeline I made while pondering a sequel to the fic (I then discovered that a linear writing style does not suit timey-wimey plots at all) I have River meeting the Doctor first since that's implied strongly by canon even though I contradicted it slightly in the fic.

tedprior and tiny_monster started up drawing_life, where they post and draw an interesting looking picture every day and encourage other people (so afar, afaict, only me :D) to draw it to. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for, and came just as a conversation with pippin inspired me to install the tablet on the laptop making it easier to do quick digital sketches while checking my email etc.

Most of the pictures I've done have been pretty crap (but good practice!), but I thought this one turned out ok:

Jar of Octopus (No description beyond "It's a jar of octopus tentacles")